L’Aquila \ Aise \ – Little is missing at the exit of “Memory weaves”, New effort of the journalist and writer Goffredo Palmerini (One Group editions). The volume, during the press, will be available in the early July in bookstores and on the main online sales agencies. Two remarkable contributions that distinguish his sixteenth book: the presentation of Sonia Cancianprofessor, essayist and historical of McGill University of Montreal, Canada, and the preface by Giovanna Di Lelloprofessor, writer and artistic director of the John Fante Festival of Torricella Peligna.
So Sonia Cancen presented the book of the Abruzzo author.
“Together with the 15 previous volumes, a longtime Goffredo honors the relevance of memory as a bridge as well as transmission between Italians inside and outside the boundaries of the peninsula. On this eventual journey, Goffredo Palmerini, Italian citizen of the world, invites us to reflect on our historical and contemporary Italianness in Italy and in the world. Migration, a theme still very debated in local and international politics, is a topic on which Palmerini affectionately draws our attention.
In fact, Palmerini invites us to consider “one of the greatest diasporas in the history of humanity what Italian emigration has been. We now have another Italy beyond the border of 80 million Oriti who love Italy more than us.” Palmerini insists on Italian migration as “real resource for the promotion of the Belpaese, if precisely we wanted to put our communities in the world to the system. They would be our best ambassadors. Our compatriots are no longer those left with the cardboard suitcase, described in stereotypes. They suffered prejudices and stigmas in the first generation of emigration. Then their children were gradually integrated into the reception companies, appreciate.
The kaleidoscopic cartography woven from Palmerini then winds and today, through a rhizome of testimonies, correspondences, chronicles, tributes, interviews, historical reports through Italy and the Italian diaspora, starting from the city of Bovisio-Masciago, in Lombardy, and moving between L’Aquila, Chieti, Rome, Florence, Milan, Turin, Paris, Paris, Paris. Brussels, New York, Montreal, Ottawa, Hamilton, Toronto, Cordoba, also allowing us to travel from our home to different countries of the world, including India, Australia, South America, Africa, etc.
In this book, Palmerini demonstrates the extraordinary amplitude and depth of our cultural heritage and his diasporic resonances in the 21st century, in frequent cases, long after the eras of the mass migration of the end of the 19th century and the 20th century. He reveals the horizon of nuances of Italian culture in a context in which the insistence for cultural homogeneity presses the world. Palmerini’s testimony reads as a polyogue, theoretical concept defined by the Franco-Hungarian philosopher Julia Kristeva characterized by multiple logical, speeches and existences, usually identified in literature, visual art, language and speech.
Palmerini’s exciting work of Palmerini on Italian culture across the border, and this book is no exception, is a tribute to its great sensitivity, to the importance of culture, memory and the story as a sunny encounter to the darkness that inflicts our universes. In his book, Palmerini does not only appeal to culture, undertakes in a resistance that hooks to the promise of culture as an essential vehicle to help humanity with greater empathy and sensitivity. Goffredo Palmerini’s book leads to consider how much memory belongs to today and yesterday, and how fundamental for the future is. ” (easy)
Aise.it – international foreign press agency
